On 1 May, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stopped tracking crises that didn’t lead to hospitalization or death. Its goal was to “maximize the quality of data collected”. It assumed that non-hospitalized Covid cases like those are not important, but “mild” – without complications, manageable at home where patients fully recover.
Sadly there is a population of people who suffer from COVID symptoms long after infection and many of them are not being considered. These patients are called “Covid Long Haulers” – and not reporting their data is a huge mistake, one that has persisted throughout the pandemic.
We know far more about long Covid now than we did this time last year. Research has found that patients suffer from endothelial dysfunction, hypometabolism in the brain, microcolotcs and more.